Monday, 12 October 2009

The interface is simple and easy to use. Navigating to your TV channels is only a few clicks away. During my testing at home setup, there are about 5 seconds delay. The video quality largely depends on your processor speed of your Mac and network connections. You can adjust through the Live TV Settings and adjust from 80 kbps to 800 kbps. I have my 1.66 GHz Mac mini connected to the AirPort Extreme with a ethernet cable and stream to my iPhone, the video quality is surprisingly good with the bit rate set to 320 kbps.

Watching recordings is similar to watching Live TV, for best quality, you should enable the option “Enable access from EyeTV for iPhone” in your EyeTV Preferences. After you turned on this option, EyeTV will prepare the recordings in iPhone format. Unless you have the Elgato Turbo.264 HD video converter which allows “adaptive streaming” and give you the best picture possible under varying network speeds.

The EyeTV for iPhone gives you an easy access to your TV programs and recordings in your palm. Streaming quality is excellent. There are still a number of features missing, like switching to other AV Input and also manually adding new recording schedule through the EyeTV for iPhone. Should be expecting these new features from the next update.

The application can be downloaded from the App Store for $4.99.